Prefolds and covers - diapers always soaked

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knobhdy wrote:

We're trying to cloth diaper our LO who is now 4 weeks. I try to make sure she gets a change every 2 hours or when I hear/feel her fill the diaper, which ever comes first. But every time I change her, the cloth diaper is soaked, front to back and side to side. I can change her, feed her and have her go number two while she is eating. When I change her again after less than 10 minutes (she's really good at dirtying a fresh diaper) the cloth will be soaked.

My husband is wondering if it's sweat that is causing the wetness, or if it's pee/the liquid part of her poo. She is EBF, so that's a thing.

Has anyone else had this issue with cloth diapers always being soaked? Would it be better to use all in ones instead of prefolds with covers? Should we be investing in a bunch of wool covers? Any assistance would be super appreciated.

Are you saying the prefold is soaked or the cover is? The prefold will be, at least in my experience. If it's soaking that quickly, you may need extra absorbency. If it's the cover, then you definitely need extra absorbency and also to make sure the prefold is all tucked in under the cover. Those are just my thoughts! But I'm new to this, too.

Prefolds are a much more absorbent option than AIO, so that wouldn’t help. What kind of prefolds are they? Can you post a pic of them? I’ve seen people refer to things as prefolds that were actually something else. Since you use a service this is less likely, but you never know! That’s pretty fast to be completely saturating the diaper.

My boy (13 days old) is the same. My Workhorse and Nick's fitted diapers are soaked when I change him in the middle of the night but thankfully my covers (Nicki's pull ons) prevent leakages. He's only a NB and is feeding through the night, so no wonder he pees so much.

I started cloth when my boy was about 4 weeks old too. We started with the smallest size prefolds and he would soak them immediately. When we moved up to the next biggest size this stooped happening. He’s now almost four months and still on the same size!

My guy has always had to size up prefolds faster than the "recommended minimum weight" would suggest. I can't remember specifics anymore but he was born 6.1lbs used NB prefolds (cotton & bamboo) and out-peed those by 6 weeks old, at which point he was 7.5lbs (we'd have to fold the rise down on the smalls, it was horribly bulky on him, and this was to just last 2 hours...!). He moved to Medium prefolds by 3.5 months (and less than 12lbs, once again had to fold down the rise). And he's in Large now, started at 9months & 18lbs. He's still in larges now, 12 months, with rose folded down (like an inch). By about 14-16lbs in mediums, the prefold/cover stopped looking super bulky on him. Even now, the bulky CD is the only reason his pants stay up (lol). He was EBF as well (solids & BF now).